Played with apples yesterday to see where the bed outlines will go. Yellow apples make surprisingly nice bed outlines--well, temporarily. By now, I know where things will go, and what will need to be taken out.
Speaking of: Forsythia can go. They are ecologically rather useless without pollen and fruit. I rescued a slow and a pear from the bushes overgrowing them and trimmed the pear to get rid of dead and dying leaves. More work will follow.
We have 3 goats on our farm. They are my little buddies. They follow me around the pastures. :)
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Our first time trying out mushroom log cultivation after many years of reading and learning and dreaming about it. We used White Oak logs from our land and shiitake plugs from North Spore.
@winduptoy is a drilling machine.
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Watching the chickens surprise a foraging chipmunk when they are free ranging in the back yard is like having my own mini version of Jurassic Park.
They never catch the chipmunk but sure do chase it out of the yard!
Man I do not have good luck securing Zapotec jalapeño seeds!
Last year the seeds I bought from a seller as zapotec jalapeños grew into frigging bell peppers. So for this year I went to a different seller and the seeds I was sent as Zapotec grew into this!
The extreme corking of these peppers indicate these are what's called Farmers Market jalapeños. I'll probably save some seeds from these for next year as it's a quirky kind of jalapeno pepper, but dang it's hard to get actual Zapotec seeds!!!
So far, so good. Comfy, warm and watertight. Don't have to wait long for boot testing weather here.
The new episode is online! Let's travel back in time to end of June when I left the first garden, harvested currants and garlic, and then spent hours sorting garlic.
Watch: https://video.katehildenbrand.com/w/cHQBvQdwHRDwnsqr4NDD27
Read: https://rootsandcalluses.com/blog/156-goodbye-first-garden
45 of 64 chicks have hatched so far and goodness are they beautiful! We even got a couple of tuxedo chicks which we've not had before.
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